EDO PERIOD, DATED 1800Twelve Japanese landscape paintings in ink and colour on paper, including depictions of fishermen in mountainous river landscapes, pavilions amongst trees, bridges, rocky outcrops, and other views; signed Baigai, Baigai sha and with seals Baigai Totoki Shi and Toki Shi noin, one painting dated spring of Kanoe-saru (1800); with four leaves of calligraphy, an introduction signed Rokumei doshi roku and dated the 10th month of Meiji 38 (1905), the pages bound as an album with a yellow silk cover, together with a blue silk sleeve and a tomobako wood box, the album 31.2cm x 16.5cm. (4)See the British Museum, access. no.1988,1017,0.1 for another landscape painting by Baigai in comparable style.Totoki Baigai was an important artist from Osaka specialising in Nanga art, based on Chinese literati paintings and calligraphy. At first an impoverished artist, he travelled to Kyoto where he worked as an entertainer in the pleasure quarters of Gion. He later served Lord Masuyama Sessai of the Ise Nagashima domain, followed by the wealthy merchant Meshino Seiho, until his retirement in 1800, after which he established a Confucian training school.